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Fall Youth Roundup -
'Scouting, Good For Life'
September 15 - 26,
2008
Here are a few suggestions to help make your fall
recruitment a success:
- Order recruitment materials & plan your
presentation
- Distribute materials to schools and churches
your unit serves.
- Plan early since flyers must be approved by
the school district.
- Invite families to attend
- Plan to make a presentation at its
elementary or junior high school open house. Try
to secure a table in an area of high visibility.
- If possible, secure a few minutes on the
Open House agenda (the school principal and PTA
President can help with this).
- Recruitment Night is your unit’s opportunity to
show off
- Demonstrate and display your program at its
best.
- Actively involve visiting families
- Adult leaders should be available to answer
questions and help fill out application forms.
- Distribute you unit’s annual calendar and
list of contact people with their phone numbers.
- Invite families to attend the first few unit
meetings.
- Hold a new parent orientation within a week
after your Recruitment Night.
- Determine which leadership positions need to be
filled.
- Create leader biographies and distribute
copies to new families.
- Register at least one adult in every family
as a member of your unit committee. This will
encourage them to become involved in your unit –
and you can never have too much help.
- Challenge each boy in your unit to bring a
friend to the Recruitment Night, and also to your
next meeting.
- Finally, make sure all new boys and their
parents get registered with BSA promptly.
Council Recruitment Web Site
Order Materials On Line
Order Materials via Hard Copy
Here are some links to some good sites for
recruitment. If you know of any more sites, please
send them into.
- Here is a good web
site to explain what scouting it all about It
is fun, interactive and for both youth and parents.
Click here for
thescoutzone.org
- This site has a guide for year round recruiting,
click here for
www.scouting.org
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